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- <title>
- Mar. 26, 1990: Business Notes:Retailing
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 26, 1990 The Germans
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 61
- Business Notes
- RETAILING
- New Link for an Old Chain
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Four months after Japanese investors purchased a stake in
- New York City's Rockefeller Center, a Tokyo conglomerate has
- made a bid for the landmark across the street: Saks Fifth
- Avenue. In what would probably result in the biggest Japanese
- stake in American retailing, the Tobu department store
- conglomerate, together with the managers of Saks, has offered
- to purchase the Manhattan icon and the 45 other Saks stores
- from their London-based parent, B.A.T. Industries.
- </p>
- <p> Although the size of the reportedly all-cash bid was not
- disclosed, industry analysts have put the price tag at more
- than $1 billion. Tobu plans to promote Saks in Asia. B.A.T. is
- said to have received several bids for the highly profitable
- retailer since putting it up for sale last year in an effort
- to repel a $21 billion hostile takeover by Sir James Goldsmith.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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